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Appreciate it 🙂

It was definitely crunchy, but I loaded at 2.481″, which gave a bit more room.  I loaded the whole previous ladder at 2.460″, which heavily compressed the 25.5gr and up loads and deformed the bullets badly with my Lee seater die.

No deformation at 2.481″ with 25.7gr, but I am still a bit worried about bullets potentially working their way out,… Read more

Just finished my A-max round robin this afternoon.  Last month, I had run a wide ladder for pressure work up and to spot the nodes, but my camera battery died in the -15C weather and the whole ladder was in a 4″ circle at 300m.  The whole group was promising, but I got no useful data other than my max loads (I stopped at 25.8 with no apparent p… Read more

Ah, I'm the one with the Shapeways follower.  An anti-tilt version could definitely be made, but because of the way the follower is retained/installed, you would probably have to split the magazine to install it.  I'm not sure if that's a huge problem for people, but splitting the magazine is certainly a lot of effort vs just tipping out the f… Read more

Not yet, I've just started developing a load for this rifle myself, so I've been following all this chatter closely!  ;D
That 1000yd  milk jug shot got me real excited about the 75gr A-Max…  My local gun shop consistently has good stock on most of the Hornady lineup too – I recently got some promising results out of the 55gr varmint SPSX (one of… Read more

Not sure exactly how consistent T3 chambers are, nor A-Max overall bullet length across lots, but my .223 stainless varmint touches at 2.498″

I have a bit of a problem with seating marks/powder compression/bullet crushing seating at 2.460″ with 25.5gr Varget in Nosler brass, so that might be a consideration as far as the 25+gr loads go depending on… Read more

Bluh, so the problem was just lubrication…  I was using a heavy oil since it was all I had on hand while cleaning and it was wholly inadequate.  A nice grease with anti-seize smoothed and lightened it out to the point where the cocking lift is almost as light as closing the bolt on a round.

I feel so stupid right now, but at least it's a r… Read more

The problem persists whether there's a round in the chamber or not, fired or not, it's something directly related to the mechanical cocking action.

The rifle has seen less than 100 rounds of factory ammo since I got it, mostly hornady or nosler match, and I haven't noticed any pierced primers or cratering or anything.

I disassembled the bolt and… Read more

I couldn't find any way to do it other than drilling out the plastic plug in the center top.  There's a phillips screw under it holding the cheek piece to the stock.

Bumping this because I'm having the same problem.  It's quite extreme though, requiring that I get up over the rifle and use two hands to forcefully lift the bolt.  There's no way I can cycle the bolt from a shooting position, it's too stiff to lift, cocking the firing pin back.

Once the firing pin is cocked, there's no more resistance.  Cycling in… Read more